Hand Prints of the Past

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[@NORTH02]

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[@DragonFruitXVI]

Disappointed in your ad. That is a scam and is often used to launder money by the rich and powerful. There is a lot of bad stuff going on in the art world and most do not realize it.

[@kidmohair8151]

it is entirely possible that the fingers aren't "missing"...they may just be curled under the palm

[@kidmohair8151]

don't read too much into it

[@timkbirchico8542]

Hi man, about the missing fingers, maybe they just bent their fingers at the relevant joints to make a code? Or more likely for originality and dexterity. It doesn't imply amputation. Persimony is best.

[@kidmohair8151]

@@timkbirchico8542 I would agree, but I would also say it is probably more like a signature, a paleolithic equivalent to modern tagging

[@plank3947]

Something about looking at a hand from thousands of years ago gives me an intense feeling of connection to a person I have never seen, never known, and who died long before our civilization today could have even been a thought in their mind.

[@lostpony4885]

All the things that fill our minds in our time.....i ponder what those things were for that time

[@suatchaglan7446]

@@lostpony4885 the industrial civilisation is weakening us

[@idahogreen2885]

Thinkin bout a 64k year old handy?

[@DarthPferd]

Impressive...

[@plank3947]

@@idahogreen2885 imagine 💀

[@acemarvel1564]

I’ve always thought that the cave people thought that this would be the symbol because they’re used to telling different tracks left by animals in a hunt, and that we would all recognize the tracks of man

[@armyant9163]

Thank you for sharing this thought process. What a notion!

[@acemarvel1564]

@M C which would’ve been very rare

[@jabbrewoki]

Wonderful thought.

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

New take! Nice!

[@Brick001]

I was here :p🤚🏻

[@hughmungus5686]

Those pictures of ancient hands painted on stone give me a bizarre feeling, like a distant feeling or memory of something oddly familiar. I don’t even know how to describe it but it’s peculiar.

[@telebubba5527]

Maybe you did something similar as a kid? I remember doing stuff like that, playing with paint or crayons.

[@hughmungus5686]

@@telebubba5527 I don’t know I don’t remember a lot of my childhood tbh

[@telebubba5527]

@@hughmungus5686 For me it's over 60 years ago, but sometime it amazes me how much I remember, even going back to my cot years. Not everything of course, but certain things and smells seem to trigger my memory. The hand prints did that for me.

[@stephanieyee9784]

@@telebubba5527, I have some very early memories. Probably my earliest is of my three male cousins, the youngest who had a medical condition layer fixed by surgery before he could walk. According to my aunt my mother would have been pregnant with my younger sister who is 21 months younger than me. My youngest cousin was 13 months younger than me. I also remember my mother breastfeeding my baby sister. Weird.

[@lbec9487]

It makes me feel strange too, not like it’s familiar to me, like you, but I feel a kind of dizzying feeling. I feel like I’m looking into time itself. I think the meaning of thousands and thousands of years of hands reaching out to us in that cave is more meaningful and powerful than can be put into words.

[@SweetGoddess420]

I always associated the prints with a signature. Kind of a "I was here" thing

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

As an artist myself I guarantee these people did much much more of their artwork in other places besides the cave walls. It takes a lot of practice to paint an animal that accurately. Years. Thats only if you're talented. If you're not it could take a lifetime, if ever. It seems the cave walls were a place for more experienced artists, like painting the Cistene Chapel. Not many stick figures in these deep caves, the art we are finding there is amazing. Not amateur. What I wouldn't give to see inside a teenage cave person's sketchbook! I wonder what they were made from. Stones? Leather? Wood? I wonder if they thought their artists were special, like Shaman. A different kind of priest maybe. Maybe someday we will know. Captivating video.

[@suatchaglan7446]

Probably bark n leather

[@SerenityDreaming]

Hides. They likely used hides scraped of the membranes, fat, and hair. They could use crystallized urea as a bleaching agent on a stretched hide held in the sun on a warm day. Sometimes they likely used the bleaching agent as a paint in and of itself particularly on darker hides which would have been the rarest. The idea that women did this makes my heart so happy. 💓

[@clark9992]

That's possible, but my guess is, it's probably not the case. As an example of why I don't think the artists were exceptional, for their time, nor the result of long years of practice, I refer you to the story of the Canadian Arctic Inuits. They had fallen on hard times in the mid 1900s, and the government encouraged them to relinquish their nomadic ways, and settle in villages. They had no skills or training in anything other than living off the land, however. One day an artist from southern Canada visited them, to paint and sketch the arctic scenery, and people. He traded some of his efforts to them for a few little carvings. He took them back, to and showed them to people, and saw how well they were received. I will now quote from The Canadian Museum of History: "It soon became clear to a few key people that these nomadic hunters and gatherers possessed at least one skill of great value that could generate cash - an innate talent to fashion artifacts out of bone, ivory and local stone. In order to survive they had to develop an acute power of observation, an amazing visual memory and a spontaneous creativity born out of having to create daily tools with existing natural materials. These skills served them well as artists." Soon, everyone and his uncle began carving large and small soap stone (a material they had never traditionally used) figurines, which were shipped back south and sold in galleries in New York and Toronto, and toured in exhibits around the world. They were even introduced to print making, and had similar success. The artistic ability shown was out standing. These were made, not by a very small number of highly experienced artists, but just by anyone who needed some cash, and felt like giving it a try.

[@nbenefiel]

One theory is that the paintings of animals with more than 4 legs would, when viewed through flickering firelight, seem to move.

[@Jayman2800]

​​@@nbenefielun fact: shamanism possibly may be the oldest known form of spirituality, with cave art depicting similar geometric and swirling patterns that a shaman sees when entering a trance that date back about 20,000 years if not further. It's also possible that Neanderthals and Denisovans also practiced shamanism

[@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288]

I wish I could touch my own hand to a handprint from 40,000 years ago. Feel that person to person connection, like reaching thru time and connecting. So incredible

[@DeskJet1]

Sadly that's the reason a lot of these sites aren't open to the public.

[@telebubba5527]

I wonder what the hands meant to them. To me it's like their saying "hi" to those that came after them. It's quite magical that we can recieve that greeting after so many years. They would be astounded at what the world has become.

[@joltjolt5060]

That's beautiful.

[@amandastakeonit7402]

I think of it as a signature or a "selfie", it's you, yours. Like when we trace our little ones' hands to remember how small they were, or how we trace their hands because they can't write a message.

[@hilliard665]

I've seen a small Australian aboriginal cave painting in person. Its such a strange feeling. I am going to road trip across Australia when im a bit older but I plan to see a lot more.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

I always feel a sense of longing to meet these people although this is obviously impossible. They survived in tough conditions and made it possible for us to have a chance of life. That's how I see it.

[@aboriginalrocks]

I don't know where you're based, but you'd be surprised how many cave art sites are in and around Sydney suburbia, and of course hundreds more when getting further away from the suburbs.

[@mathish1477]

Glenbrook in the blue mountains!

[@user-fc7yi4ud3m]

When we're kids, at least once we dipped our hands in paint and left a colored handprint on paper. There's something profoundly human in leaving such a mark behind.

[@rosequartz4102]

Call me crazy but removing a piece of finger in grief makes perfect sense to me. My husband took his own life last year and left me with a toddler and the grief is never ending. A year ago I would have thought that was nuts but now I understand the idea behind it because a piece of me IS gone. Also I thought it was interesting that I'm an artist as well and it's too painful to paint his portrait but I can focus on drawing/painting his hands. I feel like a part of something bigger but also deeply personal after seeing this.

[@matthoward7645]

I'm so so sorry for your loss that musta been a shockingly fast change for you n your child, I've read this comment 3 times and I think you are unto something, nowadays we idolize fallen with tattoos/statues etc(adding) but back then lopping of a finger may of filled that niche of remembering fallen

[@rosequartz4102]

@@matthoward7645 thank you very much. I'm doing what I can to just get him to remember his dad since he was only 2. We talk about him every day and look at pictures. Since I won't be cutting off a finger I taught myself to make resin cremation ash things. I can make anything out of his ashes. My favorite are lockets. Our son touches my locket and says, "daddy in here?" And I say, "yes daddy's in here and in the spirit world where he can watch over us all the time, even though we can't see him. "

[@matthoward7645]

@@rosequartz4102 honest that is the most beautiful thing ever what a brilliant way to keep his memory alive I barely remeber basics with my pa so your an angel keeping his memory alive hopefully your lil one can have daddy tied round his neck to, never stop keeping his memory alive darling your bloody amazing ❤️

[@rosequartz4102]

@@matthoward7645 your comment meant the world to me and made my day, thank you so much! ❤ And you're right on the nose, I told him when he's bigger he can have his own daddy necklace. Right now he has an abre camino charm I made that was with his dad's possessions. I took care of his body too. I did his hair (beautiful long hair, he was a death metal musician) and skin. It felt good to do because it was like I was getting to be there for him when I felt like I failed him. One last gift. That's something that was part of death rituals for so many Millennia and we have fallen away from that but it's also a closure- giving experience.

[@matthoward7645]

@@rosequartz4102 your incredible darling if I didn't dress and mourn my pops god know where I'd be now ahaha, your so right the whole of humanity we processed and now noone cares it seems, have an amazing week with the lil one and that necklace when they older they'll cherish forever and ever trust my most prized possession apart my kids is locks of pops hair dad will always be with you and your bloodline baby angel godbless ❤️ xxx

[@nobody8328]

Completely unprovable, of course, but there's no way the folks leaving the later handprints ~didn't~ understand vast amount of time separating them from the people who left the earliest prints. They didn't have had the same definition of time as we do, but I'm quite sure they knew that the handprints were incredibly ancient, made by the ancestors of all ancestors

[@RevertedRashidah]

Adding their prints must have meant so much to them. What a beautiful sentiment, I completely agree

[@jayferguson3648]

Imagine the feeling of love and belonging to find the prints, recognizing the kinship of merely being human.

[@madhuparnamaity6414]

Such hand painted caves are also present in India, Madhya Pradesh's Gwavilgarh hills are one of them.

[@thepaulusmaximus]

Just curious, do you know how old they are?

[@georgiopasca2720]

@@thepaulusmaximusthey are nearly 10000 years old

[@gopalaraodasari7743]

Near narmada rift valley?

[@SerenityDreaming]

Lovely reference, thank you very much

[@draganjagodic4056]

Wonderful video. For me, the warmth of narration brings somehow the warmth of those ancient, ancestral souls.

[@markadams1165]

It's fascinating to think of all the reasons why our ancient ancestors made these paintings.

[@formulajuan6038]

Your channel is my own personal time-traveling machine, with a great host and vast knowledge.

[@cheepawful]

Agreed Thanks for your work!

[@nogins]

Basque ancestors waiving to me ❤️

[@nowhereman6019]

A handprint is the universal marker of the message *"I EXISTED."*

[@TimL1980]

The cave art from tens of thousands of years ago is absolutely fascinating to me. We seek out less well known caves that have been discovered whenever on vacation in France. It is so amazing that 30.000 years ago a human went hundreds of feet through narrow tunnels with a tallow lamp (or some such device) and painted wildlife, symbols and handprints! The kids always are exited as well at art that was made more than 1000 generations ago!🙂

[@erick6102]

The oldest hand painting by the Neanderthal is the one that gives me the chills. The artist most likely isn’t saying this, but to me it says “here I am, my people and culture are long extinct, but we existed here eons before you and paved the way”.

[@actuallySHRIKE]

Oh man growing up in the SW was wonderful for the petroglyphs alone, there are some nearby where you can plainly see conquistador helmets.

[@angeriscool]

where did you grow up?

[@actuallySHRIKE]

@@angeriscool Four Corners Area ;D

[@stephanieyee9784]

@@actuallySHRIKE , please expand. State, Country etc for those of us in different countries. Cheers.

[@lbec9487]

@@stephanieyee9784 it’s where the US southwest states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet. Lots of ancient indigenous cultures lived and still live there.

[@laureal3659]

Ah men i love hearing your videos while drawing or cooking it's so chill with the piano music and soft voice yet very interesting! Do you think you'll do something about north Africa one day ? No one ever talk about maghreb while some of the most important discover had been made there

[@theDEADLIESTwarrior7]

I get so excited when I see a new upload from you!

[@MrJashuaDavies]

These ancient artists KNEW that the dry caves were the best place to leave artwork for future generations to rediscover. They already knew because they saw artwork already hundreds of years old, from their ancestors. Surely they painted things out in the open, on exposed rock cliffs and tree trunks and watched it weather away over time, and saw that cave wall art stayed around unchanged for decades. I think about the temporary art that perhaps was not so serious

[@boomeracres4813]

How interesting to find out many of the handprints were made by females! Well done, sir. Well done. 👏🏻 Thank you for another quality presentation.

[@HistoryDose]

Wonderful video. The hand is such a basic but personal thing to leave. It’s not a depiction of any event nor is it a testament to any great person. It’s a mere, powerful declaration that “I was here,” left for both the wandering traveler and the distant people of the future.

[@NORTH02]

Thanks for watching, and congrats on your shoutout on Rogans instagram! Keep the great videos coming, I am a fan.

[@HistoryDose]

@@NORTH02 thanks, looking forward to more of your stuff as well. Yeah, that shoutout was a game changer!

[@CZPanthyr]

The first site I ever saw was the petroglyphs in the Republic of Panama, which is dated to pre-Columbian culture. This type of art, anywhere in the world, has always fascinated me.

[@douginorlando6260]

I think the hand prints were part of a social rite. The painted back of the hand was part of the rite and was important to show the community the person had gone through the rite. The resulting wall painting was also a type of memorial to the event (like religious alters but different). The high locations of some paintings imply scaffolding was used and likely multiple people were involved in each hand painting.

[@languagelearningwithap]

Love the channel! Thanks. I think that it's possible to create a negative hand print that depicts a lost digit by simply turning one's hand inward. This would certainly be possible if multiple artists were working together. I am sure there were some lost digits, but it seems to me that cave art can be classified into two broad ritualistic and for fun.

[@ML-rz2hb]

The Apache and Sioux also amputated fingers as a sign of grief.

[@linag7308]

This is the best thing for a Saturday morning. Drinking my coffee and expanding the mind. This is my favorite KZbin channel. I love how you always place an oh so polite jab at Bigfooters. Makes me laugh. Hopefully as your channel grows and you might do tours . I'd love to go to one. Maybe even a hello. You've opened my mind to so more. I've love law since I can remember. But after finding your channel. Not a day goes by that I dont think about the subject of your channel. If I don't ever meet you. Thank you for opening my eyes.

[@NOMAD-qp3dd]

Indeed. 🍻

[@NORTH02]

I am glad you enjoy the content. I don't currently have any plans in regards to an in-person tour but never say never

[@angelaatwood46]

Once, in my isolated early 20s, I wrote out something that I promised to do in life. It was very deep. Then, I dipped my palm in red paint, and pressed it on the paper beside what I had written. I had no idea of any art of this kind, it just felt right to seal what I had written with my palm.

[@othelloperrello6604]

This was a great video, nicely done and informative!

[@BFpro156]

Amazing work and amazing channel. Thank you

[@lesliesylvan]

Thank you for sharing your mind, interests and knowledge Huzzah for the UNCAGED mind ~

[@b-ron4761]

Such good work! Your videos are so so so good!

[@OnTheRiver66]

thank you! This is amazing.😊

[@sandiewandie]

Great video. I saw the El Castillo paintings the other day. Absolutely amazing.

[@kevinavila7551]

Great videos man. Learn a lot from your research. Calm voice and relaxing music. 👍🏼

[@rosetownstumpcity]

what an interesting topic! so glad i found this channel

[@optimusprinceps9875]

I got to hand it to you. You grabbed my attention.

[@optimusprinceps9875]

@LeoTheBritish-Eurasian You got it, High Five!

[@NORTH02]

I did have an unintended pun somewhere in this video involving hands that I didn't recognize until the editing process haha

[@optimusprinceps9875]

@@NORTH02 Punintended Puns are the best Puns

[@bigbensarrowheadchannel2739]

Well done brother! Your hard work on these videos has really paid off. Keep up the good work. Congrats on the success. Well deserved. 👏

[@MindOFAlfie]

One of my favourite videos. I rewatch it every couple of weeks

[@alexandershockey901]

please please please make more cave art videos!!!! there are not many that go into this much detail and i have so much more i want to learn

[@charleslandes7960]

Agree .

[@Jota-rc8yq]

You should do a video on the cave system in Mexico where human remains were found amongst those of extinc mega fauna from the Ice Age.

[@YellowRoseoftx]

Very interesting and enjoyable! Thank you 😊

[@daxmarshall4969]

NORTH02 uploaded a new video. Life isn't so terrible today.

[@mariemorgan7759]

Those cave paintings fascinate me! Thanks for the information, didn't know that some of them may be attributed to an older species of mankind!

[@suatchaglan7446]

U thought all works of art were attributed solely to us?? Lol

[@mikewestwood]

I want to thank you. Your videos became so important to me. I watch them every night before going to sleep.

[@melindamullins9272]

amazing video and thank u for being so greatly detailed.

[@creepygallery3303]

Very cool video. I've always been facinated by hand printings. I was lucky enough to have grown up around some hand caves that were produced by he pre-colonial Gandangara peoples of New South Wales. Including the Red Hands Cave mentioned in your video.

[@pauledens5294]

Fascinating!!Your voice makes It perfect!!

[@saynotowar8418]

a very underrated channel but with dedicated fans

[@colinsmith1288]

What l find so amazing about ancient cave artwork is the fact you could be standing on the very ground they would have some 20,000 to 30,000 years earlier if permitted. It would make a modern person feel very connected too their ancestry.Yet the lives,languages and belief systems would have been so alien to one another. It is almost as if ancient humans painted their hands so later generations could put their hand in the cave print to be directly connected with them.

[@vladtimofte6511]

I was fascinated by art and history since 2nd grade and in 6-8th grade we were playing historical video games and even wage wars in real life with makeshift shield,spears made from copper pipes beaten with the hammer to make a spear point,sticks and even blazons painted paper on sticks,i had a bow made out of a slimmer branch pealed the branch with a knife and drawing on the "bow" with red writing ink cave animals and prehistoric depictions and this happened 13 years ago,now i am 24

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

Great EP as always!

[@SerenityDreaming]

This is your most beautiful video yet.

[@ellen4956]

My first thought on seeing the hands with missing fingers was that it could have been to show a symbol. For example, how in the 60s and 70s some people held up two fingers in a "V" as a peace sign. The handprints with designs through them show that this could have been done, but it's just a thought.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

I love these videos so interesting & so good and also I wish yall are having a good day

[@doggedout]

I stayed awake through this whole thing! Something about the background piano (and this guys AMSR voice) usually knocks me out like a qualude. Great work! Now, I must go nap.

[@almosteverything9454]

Can you name the piano themes used in this video..?

[@guymanuel4260]

I'm already hooked.

[@ElDuderinoh]

Same

[@dirtywelder483]

I have been to the north kimberly area of western australia and went for a quided tour with local indiginous rangers.we went to some areas that had paintings that were dated at 42 000yrs old and they looked like they were done yesterday..the time lines blow my mind and the dream time stories that go with the paintings are just awsome...i will definitely be going back..

[@1wor1d]

Back in the 80's I went on a guided tour in Kakadu (Australia) with an Aboriginal man who when he was younger lived a nomadic traditional life in the area we visited. He showed us cave art where he had done an ochre print of his own hand. He was also able to point out some of his relatives and friends hands that he could remember. He would remember the ones of people that were important to him and it gave him a tangible connection to loved ones that had passed away. He also told us a funny story, he showed us another cave art gallery, there were lots of fish and other animals, one fish was significantly bigger than all the others. He said his uncle had painted it and told everyone that the picture accurately represented the size of the fish he caught. Our guide was young at the time but had actually seen the fish his uncle caught and said he was exaggerating and it was no where near as big as the painting!! Finally we came to this beautiful overhang/cave, that looked high over the beautiful Kakadu wilderness, it was a stunning view and you could see everything, river, swamps, grasslands and forest. The overhang had lots of cave art, he asked us tourists why do we make cave art? People said because of, communication, cultural, spiritual reasons etc, he said there's also a lot more simple reason that some of the paintings are made and that is when people get bored, particularly in the wet season you could be sitting in a cave all day while the rain comes down, nothing to do, so you paint. You might be painting while a couple of friends sit around and help you grind down and mix up the ochre or other dyes and help make the tools needed to paint. Needless to say it was a fantastic tour. BTW I went to Uluru/Ayers Rock central Australia a couple of years ago with my children this time and they still have Aboriginal tour guides explaining their first hand experiences of rock art, well worth a visit.

[@lolmacdonald9401]

Interesting!! Your tour guide has passed some of his wisdom to me, thanku 👍😃

[@johnhoelzeman6683]

You mentioned the possibility of self-mutilation or whatever its called in regards to the missing fingers. Did you happen to check the frequency of this in skeletons of humans in the areas? Surely if it was that common, then we would've seen some evidence of it in bodies we've found there

[@chase8649]

I'd imagine that's hard to determine if there's there's one bone missing from natural causes.

[@ransakreject5221]

10s of thousand year old bodies and even skeletons are very rare. Seems unlikely there would be enough round to give us a good sample size

[@kayzeaza]

They’re lucky to find a whole intact skeleton from that age let alone a complete hand

[@georgefleming4956]

I’m aware that this isn’t the most insightful comment, but I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

[@vinces7001]

Nice One as Always! Cheers

[@eloquentsarcasm]

For people used to high risk hunting and activities involving climbing and heavy rocks it would make sense to me that losing fingers to animal bites or construction/climbing accidents would be fairly common. Think of the old "shop teacher" jokes. A friend of mine almost lost half his hand to a saw while on a house building site. Only thanks to modern medicine was the damage repaired. In a time before written language, handprints would be like a signature and a connection to the ancestors showing how long that people inhabited the land.

[@ulrikeneitch9887]

What perfect timing. Just visited Newspaper Rock last week! Petroglyphs have always fascinated me, and that site is incredible. Altogether strange, the footprints in one section all had SIX toes. Very curious.

[@grovermartin6874]

I was just reading about polydactyly, extra fingers and toes, a few days ago. Some think it is an outgrowth of close intermarriage.

[@movingwater7312]

those hand prints with missing fingers could be simply made by bending finger at proximal interphalangeal joint. you bend your fingers and keep it against hard surface, you dont have to put any effort to keep them bent. i like your channel, great content.

[@ivansalamon7028]

There is something truly majestic and bone chilling about this. I would elaborate, but I am too tired, so I will leave it at that.

[@Abominatrix650]

Cave art is among ky favourite forms of art on Earth. Quite possibly my number one if you factor out all non-pop culture art. It's more than just a random, abstract painting that rich toffs care about. It's a survivng echo of ages long since passed and a simple, yet eloquent connection to the people that lived during that time. Truly astonishing. And that doesn't even take into account the scientific importance of it all. There is too much to unpack that my comment is unsuitable for. It is one of the most important things in human history

[@johnhoelzeman6683]

The walls covered in hand paintings always reminded me of paintings of the communion of saints

[@Jmvars]

This is one of the sites I want to visit if possible. Something about being in that cave, where ancient humans tens of thousands of years ago left their hand imprints.

[@davdavsin]

Amazing. Thanks

[@Adamibbo1996]

This is great!

[@kscorp5176]

Your Big Foot snark made me laugh, so you've earned another subscriber :D

[@copperhorse4515]

Loved this. 🖐️

[@gagalover2k10]

@NORTH 02 nice video 😊

[@brendacooper5729]

Some indigenous folks used to cut off part of a finger as a sign of grief, but some of those hands are almost all gone, the instances I had read about usually involved only the two smallest fingers, not the index fingers which would substantially impair their ability to hunt and and process their food.

[@Pillowcase1977]

Wow. I have to see these hand prints in my next adventure.

[@bug______]

regardless of the meaning of these paintings but to me , the hands look like spirits of our past ancestors are concealed in them

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

"I was here!" We still do it.

[@kawawangkowboy9566]

It would be neat if we were able to get fingerprints for these artists.

[@bsailor5573]

This video is very well made

[@indigo_scouts9651]

omg your videos are rlly informative! If it's possible, could you do a video on Armenia/Ancient Armenia or the Caucasus region? I feel not much is known about that region.

[@cavecavecavecave5295]

Your voice and videos are fantastic.

[@Tarathathe77wookiee]

Its was really good! If you haven't already done so, Could you please make a video about cyptids/aliens in cave art? Thank you!

[@odalisque111]

wonderful video. The speculation about lost digits seems plausible ; if they were willing to remove digits to demonstrate loss of kin it seems likely by extension that they would want to record the loss for posterity. The beginning of historical narrative? perhaps even the precursor to creating symbols?

[@othelloperrello6604]

Does any one not belive the finger integrals were a code or number system? Seriously, think about what these people cared about. Counting would have been not only a huge advantage, but almost a mystical quality. The hands and fingers are something

[@Bauks]

12:01 Prehistoic Kevin!

[@dablarts9384]

Do the moving paintings next 😍

[@ruthanneseven]

Very beautiful, peaceful presentation. The variety of locations was astonishing. The Southwest pictograph had quite an unusual figure in it. Larger, squarish head... What do you make of that?

[@jasonmartin1687]

This was really good. If you get bored one day you should do a review of quest for fire...plz n thx

[@glennbabic5954]

Interesting how most spray stencil prints are of the left hand meaning they held the blow tool with their right hand (so right hand was probably the dominant hand even in prehistoric times), however the illustrations in this video of people making the negative prints is the opposite of this!

[@smoothcast6940]

Top quality content as always. Hey north. Aside from paleontology, since you like MMA. Can I have your take on Gaethje - Oliveira next weekend?

[@NORTH02]

I got Oliveira, there is a chance that Justin takes him out early but I think Oliveira is just the better fighter. Oliveira by Sub is probably most likely in my opinion or maybe even a decision. I am a huge fan of both fighters and wouldn't mind seeing either of them win!

[@smoothcast6940]

@@NORTH02 shit ! You called it perfectly.

[@conner13.c16]

4:38 below the handprints there is a figure that reminds me of the cranium of an archaic hominin

[@einienj3281]

I don't think that there will be a mark, like these hand prints, left from me for the future humans..

[@einienj3281]

@LeoTheBritish-Eurasian Maybe I will.. 😊🖐🏻

[@cicicox5995]

Can you please do a video on Aboriginal Australian history, as you've mentioned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have existed on the continent of Australia for at least 65,000 years and I would love to hear your perspective and information on this history! Particularly rock art such as these hand prints, I believe there are examples of rock art and evidence of civilisation far older than many know about.

[@phiddlephart7026]

How these handprints got started: They were working with vegetable or animal material & their hands become stained and they tried to dry theirs hands on the wall. One of them realized what happened and tried to recreate that process in different ways. EZ

[@DCRNLV]

don't remember exactly where, but I read papers proposing that ocher was applied as sunscreen rather than art, & if I recall correctly, made a point that it was thrown over the hands placed on walls, possibly indicating that the hands depicted did not belong to the "artist" (also evidenced by the lack of ocher stains where they were placed), & were thus likely cooperative processes, rather than individual efforts.